Virgilio Maldonado first noticed the trail of blood the moment he arrived for work at an Alton, Texas, construction site.

Maldonado followed the trail to a machete lying next to a bag of concrete. Atop the bag lay a detached penis.

"I thought maybe it was people hunting and that it was part of a rabbit," Maldonado said. Then his son came along and told his dad exactly what they were looking at.

About the same time Maldonado made his find, a man bleeding from his groin stumbled into the Alton Police Department. He was rushed to hospital.

As Virgilio Maldonado was flagging down a passing cruiser, doctors were calling the police station to ask if anyone had found a penis recently.

The penis was brought over to the waiting doctors, and re-fastened to Oscar Hernandez, its rightful owner.

According to police, Hernandez had severed the penis himself after discontinuing the medication he was supposed to be on.

» Scott Saxon